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Sri Lankan crisis: Parliament votes for new president
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Parliament on Wednesday voted to elect the successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a three-way contest, following a high-voltage political drama that saw the former president fleeing the country and…
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Sri Lanka: State of emergency declared ahead of July 20 prez polls
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday declared a state of emergency in the country with immediate effect, ahead of the July 20 election for the post of the president which…
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Learning from Sri Lankan crisis
Ram Puniyani The crisis in Sri Lanka has shaken not only the citizens of Sri Lanka but also the neighbors and the World as a whole. At one level there is a…
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Rajapaksa sent resignation letter to Speaker through email: Reports
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday sent his resignation letter through an email to Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardenaon whose office is checking the legality of the document, according…
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Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa allowed entry on ‘private visit’: Singapore govt
Singapore/Colombo: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was allowed to enter Singapore on Thursday on a “private visit”, a day after he fled the country to the Maldives without resigning as promised in…
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Sri Lankan protesters to hand back President’s house, other occupied buildings
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s anti-government protesters have decided to hand back the President’s house and other public buildings which they have been occupying. The protesters, who had occupied the entrance to the President’s…
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa departs for Singapore
Colombo: Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who reached the Maldivian Capital Male following raging protests in Sri Lanka, departed for Singapore today. Rajapaksa left the Maldives and is on his way to Singapore on a…
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Sri Lanka parliamentary Speaker yet to receive President’s resignation
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s parliamentary speaker is yet to receive President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation letter, local media reported. Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said that he has not yet received President Rajapaksa’s resignation. The…
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SL crisis: Lankan IOC to maintain separate stockpile for ambulances
Colombo: Lanka IOC, the unit of India’s biggest oil firm, has asked all its 216 petrol pumps in Sri Lanka to maintain a separate fuel stockpile for supply to ambulances in the crisis-hit…
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Sri Lanka crisis: Things to know
Colombo: From being a war hero to becoming a symbol of hatred who pushed the island nation into an economic and a constitutional crisis and fled the country hours before he was…
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Sri Lankan Prez to leave for Singapore from Maldives
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who left for Maldives early Wednesday morning will leave for Singapore later in the day, sources in Maldives told Daily Mirror. Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka on…
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Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after President Rajapaksa flees: PM’s office
Colombo: Sri Lanka on Wednesday declared a state of emergency after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on a military jet in the face of a public revolt against his government…
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Protests near Maldives Prez’s house urging to send Gotabaya Rajapaksa back
Colombo: Maldivians and Sri Lankan expatriates are protesting near Maldives President Ibrahim Solih’s house urging the authorities to send ousted Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa out from their country’s soil, the Head…